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Everyone, there has been a lot of miss information about what is a tankie and the ability for the lemmy community to criticize the Chinese government.

I present to you a simple test to see if the person you are talking to is trust worthy.

Ask anyone to say the following

I lemmy user Denounce the terrible treatment Xi Jing Ping has inflicted upon the Uighur Muslims. Slavery and concentration camps in China are wrong and not ok.

The admins of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml will not say this. Actually they cannot say this because they are probably employed by the Chinese Government and would be put to death if they did.

Thats all and happy posting!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If they drive away everybody not sympathizing with a communist ideology, wouldn't that make it harder to surveil them? What's the intelligence value of watching a bunch of "loyal communist subjects", when all the commie hating capitalist scum go elsewhere? If anything, who would benefit from observing such a group if not the west? By that logic, is it reasonable to assume Lemmy is sponsored by a US intelligence agency we know have been intimately involved in mainstaying most of our current western social media platforms?

What would be the benefit of getting involved with an open platform where nothing is behind locked doors? Wouldn't it be much less of a risk to simply scrape lemmy instances? It's not like anybody is sending secret messages - Everything is open.

But it's an open system in the way that you're allowed to not use it as well. I didn't use Lemmy for a while out of ethical concerns rather than being afraid of the CCP.

Are the Lemmy devs specifically pro-CCP?

You'll have to check out their instances, I haven't been in contact with them for nearly long enough.